Safety attachment



(No Model.) A J. H. BARNES,

SAFETY ATTAGHMENT.

No. 334,926. Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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SAFETY ATTAC H M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,926, dated January 26, 1886.

Application filed October 23, 1885.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BARNES, of Greencastle, in the county of Putnam and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safety Attachments, of which the following is a description.

My invention is an improved safety attachment intended especially for use in watchpockets; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a back view, and Fig. 2 a top plan View, of a pocket provided with my improvements. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my attachment with dotted motions, and Fig. 4 shows a modification.

The pocket A may manifestly be that of a vest or of a pair of pantaloons. Through the rear side of one end of the pocket it is preferred to form an opening, a, for the rear end of the safety attachment, which bears the detent and projects into position to be manipulated from the inner side of the garment, or the attachment may be secured wholly within the pocket where desired. The attachment consists of a plate, forming the support, 'a hooked bar, and a detent. The supportingplate B may have suitable openings to facilitate its stitching to the pocket, or the plate may be secured in other desired manner. It has its forward edge bent, forming an approximately right-angled flange, b, which is formed with openings 12 b for the passage of the hooked bar. The flange b is extended at G and bent or curved, forming the chain-retaining hook, as will be presently more fully described. A keeper or loop, D, on the support operates in connection with opening I) to receive and guide the hooked bar 'E. This keeper and the rear end of the bar are preferably made angular to prevent such bar from rotating and preserve it at all times in operative position. A flange or enlargement e, on the rear end of the bar E, by engagement with the keeper D, limits the forward movement of the hooked bar. The forward end of the bar is passed through opening I), and bent, forming hook E, the extremity of which is movable into and out of opening b A notch, e, is formed in the bar near its rear Serial No. 180,771. (No model.)

end in position to be engaged by a detentpawl, F, pivoted at one end, and having its other end arranged to engage the bar E and secure same in the position shown. in Fig. 3. When in this position, forward strain on the hooked bar will only bind the detent more firmly in place. By turning the detent down the hooked bar is released, and may be adjusted to the position indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 3, when the pendent ring of the watch may be engaged by or released from the hooked bar, which may be securely locked by moving it back so the point of the hook will enter the opening 6, and the detent-pawl engages the notch e, as will be seen. When so secured, the watch can only be removed by releasing the detent and adjusting the hooked bar to the dotted position indicated in Fig. 3. If it is not desired to hook the watch, the chain may be passed up within the book 0, so as to prevent the watch being withdrawn. This hook is also useful in that it retains the chain over the supporting-plate, so as to prevent such chain from pulling down the pocket, as will be seen.

Manifestly the form of the detent may be varied. In this connection the hooked bar might be slotted and secured by a screw and thumb-nut, as shown in Fig. 4; but I prefer the paw1-detent for the reasons before stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In a safety attachment for pockets, the combination of a plate or main portion provided with a chain-supporting hook, and a lock supported by said plate, and provided with a watch-securing device, all constructed and arranged substantially as described, Whereby the watch may be secured and the chain passed up over the hook, as set forth.

2. In asafety attachmentfor watch-pockets, the combination of the plate or support having end flange, b, extended to form the chainsupporting hook G, the locking-bar having a hook at one end, whereby to secure a watch, and a detent arranged to engage said bar, substantially as set forth.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, the safety attachment for watch-pockets herein described, consisting of a supporting-plate, a bar provided with a hook whereby to engage a watch-ring, and supported by and movable along said plate, and provided with tended,forxning a hook, G, a keeper, E, secured a notch, e, and the detent F, pivoted at one on said plate B, the hooked bar hav'in'ganotoh, end to the plate, and made of a length to en- 6, and the detent-pawl, pivoted at one end to gage at its free 'end with notch e at a pointin the plate B, and having its other end movable 5 rear of its pivotal support, whereby strain on into and out of engagement with notch 0, sub- 1 the bar E will tighten the detent, substantially stantially as set forth.

as set forth. JOHN HOLMES BARNES.

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